Our dog died yesterday. Mentally composing and rewriting posts about it has been part of my processing this over the past day, but while I announced it on twitter to get some immediate release yesterday, and wrote it on Facebook so that the extended family know and so people at work don't ask me how my weekend was tomorrow, actually writing ( Read more... )

I love The Daily Show's Operation: Silent Thunder videos. They've been getting a lot of press, haven't they? (And much of it comprised of astonishment over the fact that one can find humor in a war zone. Yeah, like soldiers are known for having no sense of humor whatsoeverToday's big 'aha!' moment: I've finally figured out how to play fetch with my ( Read more... )

Last night I saw the movie The Queen, which I absolutely loved. Its humor is dry and subtle and proper and self-deprecating, and oddly, it was the most laugh-out-loud moments I've had watching a movie in a long time. I'm interested to know what British viewers thought of it. And what the characters depicted thought ( Read more... )

It is 12:00 Friday noon, out of two tests this week one went great and one went horribly bad, and I can feel it's going to be a spammy day. Will try to make some of it meaningful.

In the meantime, ( two doggie pics, )

Having just discovered how to do the whole photobucket thing, I'm all aglow with... well, with the discovery. So here are some random photos I took in the last year, and there are rainbows and sunsets because they're pretty and I am a girl.

( Five random, four sunsets, three rainbows, two holidays )

I was having such a good time at "school" that I wan't anxious to get home at all- I was happy, of course, but coming home didn't have that burn that usually accompanies it when in the army ( Read more... )